After the great success of his Man Recordings debut release “Suomo” EP (Man 048) feat. Anbuley, Estonia´s new talent Bert On Beats returns with another track that marks him as the don of the bass-in-yo-face approach to tricky Tropical Dubstep. With an energy that is tough to find executed quite so well anywhere else, Bert On Beats is rocking it right now.

This newest release, “Alemão”, sees Bert On Beats team up with São Paulo based MC Gi – one of the hottest new vocal talents to emerge from Brasil – bringing some raw and attitude filled vocals to the mix. MC Gi has already collaborated with South Rakkas Crew, Edu K, Chernobyl and others and has become known for witty, powerful lyrics that show that this 19 year old has big balls! “Alemão” is about the seductive power of the well known German sausage!

Remixes for „Alemão“ come from a high profile list: Munich´s hypemeisters Schlachthofbronx, Roulet of Enchufada fame, brand new Paris über-talent Bambounou, Beat Laden from Batida, and Estonia´s very own S.I.N.

B-Side “Subkiss” is a hugely different character; a bass heavy instrumental dub number.

Bert On Beats is a name you should get used to hearing! Expect his debut album „Antenna Of Tallinn“ drop soon on Man Recordings!

DJ FEEDBACK

CROOKERS: „Pum Pum Phra!“
BRODINSKI: „This Roulet Remix is great, the Bambounou one too!“
CHERNOBYL: „Bert On Beats Kills!“
SCHLACHTHOFBRONX: „Big tune!“
SHIR KHAN: „Bambounou Remix is great!“
WILDLIFE! „Another killer release. Bambonou is my favourite!“
MUMDANCE „Love this!“
TOSHIO MATSUURA „Schlachthofbronx remix is real fun!“
JOYCE MUNIZ „Love the lyrics, Roulet remix is for me!“
MOTORPITCH „High energy level, from beginning to end!“

Listen to and buy it from here:

I blogged about this documentary before, however,  here it is in its full glory and with English subtitles and very professional looking it is too.  Here’s the blurb:

Musician Thiago Pethit, rapper Xis, producer Chernobyl, bands Holger, Firefriend and DJs Killer on the Dancefloor, Database e Pristine Blusters raise questions in this documentary about themes that relate to the current independent music industry in São Paulo and the world.

Collective creation is the center of this discussion, which highlights subjects such as remixes, samples, authorship record sales e creative process.

We.Music is an initiative of SixPix and Remix in conjunction with MIS (The Sound and Image Museum of São Paulo) and collective Galeria Experiência, as part of YouPIX, a digital culture festival which takes place every year in the museum.

This film was produced and directed by the multimedia collective Galeria Experiência. (www.galeriaexperiencia.com.br)

The above is a trailer for the We.music (sorry, shit name!) documentary about independent music in São Paulo. Sorry for those non-portuguese speakers, I’ll see if I can find a subtitled version. I haven’t seen it yet, but it does look interesting and reasonably well made.

The independent scene seems to be  holding out hope for the music industry in Brasil, now that the majors have all but given up the ghost. Groups like Mombojó (see below) are self releasing their own material  through their site and seem to have struck a deal with the infernal UOL to make their new album available, though I would be interested to know how that works out financially for them.

The documentary includes friend of Man Recs, DJ Chernobyl.  At the We.music site there’s a nice track by Mr Chernobyl with excellent São Paulo Rapper Xis.
Chernobyl + Xis – Pra que tudo se nada se leva by wemusic

Paul Snowden, our man for all things design has just produced a limited edition range of SÃO PAULO WASTED YOUTH t-shirts. Order them through WGY:

http://www.wasted-german-youth.com/